How to limit the CPU usage of a Linux process

If you are a Linux system admin, there are cases where you would like to limit the CPU usage of a certain process such that at no time does the process eat up more than X% of CPU resource. cpulimit is a Linux program that can do exactly that, i.e., limiting the CPU usage of a Linux process in percentage. It monitors the CPU usage of a specified process as a daemon, and adjusts its CPU utilization dynamically.Read more »